- Title:
- The Blind Man
- Date:
- 1853
- Medium:
- Pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 × 14 inches (25.4 × 35.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "JEM"
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper left: "SMITH PA | AR STATIONER"; in pen and brown ink,, upper center: "PITY THE | BLIND"; in pen and brown ink, upper right: "3p"; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "JEM | 1853"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1980.12
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- beggar | blind (people) | genre subject | signs | street
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: As a COVID-19 precaution, the Study Room is closed until further notice. - Exhibition History:
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Pre-Raphaelites (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1984-03-07 - 1984-05-28)
British Drawings (Davis & Langdale Co.) (Davis & Langdale Co., Inc., 1985-05-01 - 1985-05-31)
Hard Times (Van Gogh Museum, 1988-01-24 - 1988-03-13)
Hard Times (Manchester City Galleries, 1987-11-14 - 1988-01-10)
Millais (The Bunkamaura Museum of Art, 2008-08-30 - 2008-10-26)
Millais (Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, 2008-06-07 - 2008-08-17)
Millais (Tate Britain, 2007-10 - 2008-01-13)
Millais (Van Gogh Museum, 2008-02-15 - 2008-05)
Pre-Raphaelites - Victorian Avant-Garde (National Gallery of Art, 2013-02-26 - 2013-05-20)
- Publications:
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Susan Fagence Cooper, The model wife, the passionate lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais , Duckworth Overlook, London, 2010, pp. 97-98, fig. 14, PR5263 C67 2010 (YCBA)
Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 28, no. 108, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 28, no. 108, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11178
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1829–1896, British, The Blind Man, 1853
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